QuikPic:Rainy Day

I  snapped this photo on a real rainy day while I was waiting the storm out in the barn. The alpaca seemed real relaxed. This position is  cush sometimes spelled kush  in alpaca vocabulary.Read more
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Time For a Tune-Up

Now that we’re 1 month away from the grand re-opening of the Farmyard, it’s time to trade-in your well practiced sheep “baa” and try out your newly acquired alpaca “hum.” Here’s Retro, short for “Retroversion,” one of our new alpaca moms– and by far the most vocal– giving you a lesson in alpaca communication. So get practicing and in 30 days you will be ready to welcome the humming quartet into their new Farmyard home. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUVKqObrlvM[/youtube]Read more
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Too busy to write

It’s been a crazy and busy week- too much going on to even sit and think. We’ve been paying extra attention to our newest members.  Last week about this time I was out at Our Ancestral Farm with Dr. Cannedy doing a herd check on the alpacas.     My head is still spinning from the week, but I’ll share (what I can remember) from the week: Meetings, some multiple times, with 7 different contractors: 1) the fence company putting upRead more

More alpaca photos

The Alpacas received their pre-shipment physical on Sunday. Dr Cannedy and I, along with lots of vet school students, went to the Farm to check out the whole herd. They arrived on grounds Monday morning in this trailer. The trailer was so large and our access so narrow that we walked the girls to their pen the last 50 feet or so. This is their quarantine pen and they will live here for about one month.Read more